If YETI can make a cup that keeps water cold or hot for hours and a cooler that holds ice for hours, then why aren’t we building houses with that same material?

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If YETI can make a cup that keeps water cold or hot for hours and a cooler that holds ice for hours, then why aren’t we building houses with that same material?

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Answer 1

The high efficiency home industry actually uses the Yeti cooler as an analogy and a framework to build super efficient homes. Check out Matt Risinger on YouTube. He builds high efficiency homes, some passive house rated. Passive house rating is essentially yeti cooler level.

Side note: it’s super expensive to build this way, and the payoff over just standard “good” insulation is essentially never